Bug 845 – menu elements are supported by browsers

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Bug 845 - menu elements are supported by browsers


Summary:	menu elements are supported by browsers

Status:	NEW

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Assigned To:	Nobody

URL:	http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3...

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Reported:	2011-06-22 18:31 CEST by Ellie
Modified:	2011-06-22 18:31 CEST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Ellie 2011-06-22 18:31:27 CEST

The validator shows warnings that the menu element is not supported by any web browsers yet when validating X/HTML5+ARIA+SVG1.1+MathML2.
But it is only the type and label attributes/dom properties that are not supported yet.
 The menu element has been supported as an HTMLMenuElement object in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and even Konqueror for many years. Even classic IE 3 and 4 and Netscape 3 and 4 I'm sure supported the basic menu element.

I do not use the HTML5 type or label attributes of the menu element but I do use the basic menu element for main link menus, etc. which has been natively supported for many browser versions as it was in as far back as HTML 3.2.

So use of the basic menu element should not generate even a warning as the basic menu element is widely deployed in the browser scape as well as a basic element in X/HTML 5.